2 papers
stat.ML2024
Lower Bounds for Time-Varying Kernelized Bandits
Xu Cai, Jonathan Scarlett
The optimization of black-box functions with noisy observations is a fundamental problem with widespread applications, and has been widely studied under the assumption that the fun…
cs.LG2024
Kernelized Normalizing Constant Estimation: Bridging Bayesian Quadrature and Bayesian Optimization
Xu Cai, Jonathan Scarlett
In this paper, we study the problem of estimating the normalizing constant through queries to the black-box function , where belongs to a reproducing ker…